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THE  AMERICAN  BAPTIST 
MISSIONARY  UNION 

I.  ORIGIN  AND  GROWTH 

1.  AWAKENING  OF  THE  MISSIONARY 

IMPULSE 

HE  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  is  es¬ 
sentially  a  missionary  organization. 
The  source  and  incentive  of  its  mis¬ 
sionary  enterprise  are  found  in  the 
Saviour’s  love  for  every  human 
soul,  in  his  desire  that  this  love  shall 
live  again  in  the  heart  of  all  his 
followers,  and  in  his  last  great  command  to  the 
Church  to  proclaim  the  gospel  to  all  mankind. 
During  many  centuries  the  Church  made  only 
few  and  scattered  efforts  to  reach  the  great  hea¬ 
then  nations  of  the  East  with  its  priceless  boon. 
In  1792  William  Carey  and  his  associates  awak¬ 
ened  the  missionary  conscience  of  the  English 
Baptists,  and  set  in  motion  currents  of  influence 
that  flowed  out  into  many  channels  of  church 
life.  It  was  not  until  twenty  years  later  that 
this  missionary  impulse,  spreading  to  the  United 
States,  found  congenial  soil  in  a  little  group  of 
students  at  Williams  College,  and  later  bore  fruit 
in  the  formation  of  the  American  Board  of  Com¬ 
missioners  for  Foreign  Missions  (Congregational), 
the  first  foreign  missionary  society  in  America. 
It  was  under  that  society  that  Adoniram  Judson 
and  Luther  Rice  with  three  other  young  men 
sailed  for  India  in  1812. 

2.  MISSIONARY  ORGANIZATION  AMONG 

THE  BAPTISTS 

The  astounding  news  that  Judson  and  Rice 
had  become  convinced  of  the  truth  of  Baptist 
principles,  closely  followed  by  an  appeal  from 
them  to  the  Baptists  of  America  to  undertake 
their  support  in  a  mission  to  the  people  of  India, 
met  with  a  quick  response.  Various  independent 
societies,  which  sprang  at  once  into  existence, 
united  in  1814  in  the  formation  of  a  Baptist 
foreign  missionary  society,  commonly  known  as 
the  Triennial  Convention.  Through,  this  society 
the  Baptists  of  America  worked  unitedly  until 
1846,  when  the  growing  agitation  regarding 
slavery  led  to  the  withdrawal  of  the  Baptists  of 
the  South,  to  form  the  Southern  Baptist  Conven¬ 
tion,  while  those  of  the  North  maintained  their 
organization  under  the  name  of  the  American 
Baptist  Missionary  Union.  Continuing  the  work 


as  it  had  been  begun,  this  “Old  Established 
House’’  has  seen  ninety  years  of  ever  widening 
activity  and  increasing  usefulness. 

3.  GRADUAL  DEVELOPMENT 

The  guiding  hand  of  Providence  is  unquestion¬ 
ably  discernible  in  the  inception  of  the  mission¬ 
ary  enterprise  among  the  Baptists  of  America. 
That  same  guiding  hand  has  manifestly  been 
present  in  the  several  stages  of  progress  as  that 
work  has  extended  from  one  land  to  another  until 
seven  great  fields  (eight,  including  missions  in 
Europe)  are  now  under  the  care  of  the  Missionary 
Union.  Surely  it  is  true  that  a  measure  of  fidelity 
to  a  God-given  trust  is  rewarded  by  still  larger  op¬ 
portunities  for  service.  Into  none  of  these  seven 
fields  did  the  Missionary  Union  seek  to  force  an 
entrance.  The  door  thrown  open  by  an  unseen 
hand  was  itself  the  invitation.  The  Lord  was 
thrusting  his  laborers  into  his  harvest.  To  have 
failed  to  enter  would  have  been  to  refuse  a  sacred 
trust.  Thus  the  march  has  been  made  from  Burma 
to  Assam;  from  Assam  to  South  India;  from 
South  India  to  China;  from  China  to  Japan;  after 
Japan,  Africa;  and  now  in  these  later  days  the 
Philippine  Islands. 

In  these  seven  fields  102  stations  have  been 
established  as  centres  from  which  the  light 
streams  out  to  irradiate  the  surrounding  regions. 
Enrolled  in  the  service  of  the  Union  are  52 0 
missionaries  who  have  devoted  their  lives  to  the 
peoples  of  these  lands.  Associated  with  these 
missionaries  in  the  work  of  evangelization  are 
4249  native  workers;  preachers,  teachers,  and 
Bible  women.  Out  of  the  millions  of  heathen 
117,031  have  been  led  to  confess  Christ  and  as¬ 
sociate  themselves  together  in  Baptist  churches. 

II.  SPHERE  OF  OPERATION 

1.  BURMA 

Burma,  as  it  is  the  oldest  field  of  the  Union,  is 
the  one  upon  which  the  largest  effort  has  been  ex¬ 
pended.  Here,  and  in  South  India,  have  been 
gathered  by  far  the  largest  numbers  of  those  led 
out  of  the  darkness  of  heathenism.  The  story 
of  the  mission  is  fascinating,  particularly  that 
part  which  describes  the  eager  reception  of  Chris¬ 
tianity  by  the  Karens.  The  faithful  labors  of 
Judson,  the  patient  endurance  of  persecutions 
and  sufferings,  the  seven  long  years  of  waiting 
for  the  first  convert,  have  been  followed  by  rich 
fruitage.  At  first  the  progress  was  slow,  dis- 
hearteningly  slow.  Previous  to  1850  only  three 
stations  had  been  permanently  established.  All 
of  these,  Rangoon,  Moulmein  and  Tavoy,  were 
only  on  the  outer  fringe  of  that  great  country. 
Only  two  of  Burma’s  many  races  had  been  touched. 


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To-day  our  work  is  conducted  in  twelve  distinct 
languages  or  dialects  and  touches  47  peoples  and 
tribes.  A  glance  at  the  location  of  three  of  the 
stations  established  within  the  last  ten  years  will 
show  how  the  work  has  expanded  in  widening 
circles.  Haka  in  the  Chin  Hills  is  three  weeks 
journey  from  Rangoon,  away  in  the  northwest, 
close  upon  the  borders  of  Assam.  Myitkyina  is 
in  the  extreme  north,  close  to  the  Chinese  bor¬ 
der,  among  the  wild  Kachins.  Kengtung,  far  in 
the  northeast  among  the  Shans,  is  forty  days 
distant  by  cart  from  railway  connection  with 
Rangoon.  Twenty-one  other  stations,  27  in  all, 
mark  the  intermediate  stages  of  the  progress 
from  that  first  little  group  upon  the  shore  to  the 
remote  borders  of  the  land. 

There  are  179  missionaries  now  laboring  in 
Burma,  assisted  by  1900  native  workers.  A 
church  membership  of  over  43,000  requires  of  the 
missionaries  and  their  native  associates  Christian 
nurture  and  training  in  the  principles  of  the 
Christian  faith  and  life.  Valuable  auxiliaries  to 
the  efforts  of  the  missionaries  are  such  institu¬ 
tions  as  the  Rangoon  Baptist  College,  the  theo¬ 
logical  seminaries  for  Karens  and  Burmans  at 
Insein  and  the  Baptist  Mission  Press. 

2.  ASSAM 

Our  missionaries  went  to  Burma,  compelled  by 
force  of  circumstance;  to  Assam  they  went  by 
invitation.  Far  inland  up  the  Bramaputra  River, 
Nathan  Brown  and  O.  T.  Cutter  went  in  1836  to 
begin  a  mission.  From  the  station  opened  at 
Sibsagor  in  1841,  the  work  has  spread  down  the 
valley  toward  the  sea  and  back  from  the  river 
into  the  hills  on  either  side.  Here,  as  in  Burma, 
many  tribes  present  their  mute  appeal.  A  large 
and  inviting  field  is  found  among  the  immigrants 
who  swarm  into  the  valley  to  work  upon  the  tea 
gardens.  Back  among  the  hills  are  the  Garos, 
the  Nagas  with  their  many  branches,  the  Mikirs, 
the  Daphlas,  the  Rabbhas  and  many  others  to 
whom  the  missionaries  minister.  The  native 
Christians  are  proving  most  efficient  evangelists, 
carrying  the  gospel  to  villages  where  the  mission¬ 
ary  could  only  with  the  greatest  difficulty  pene¬ 
trate,  and  to  tribes  whose  language  he  does  not 
know.  Of  these  helpers  there  are  240  working 
with  51  missionaries.  Over  7,500  are  now  disciples 
of  Jesus  Christ,  an  earnest  of  the  multitudes  who 
shall  give  honor  to  his  name  in  the  valley  and 
among  the  hills  of  Assam. 

3.  SOUTH  INDIA  (TELUGUS) 

Passing  from  Burma  and  Assam  to  the  land  of 
the  Telugus  a  notabl'e  contrast  is  met.  Instead 
of  many  races  and  many  languages  we  find  one 
race,  one  speech.  Instead  of  Buddhism  and  ani¬ 
mistic  faiths,  the  missionaries  have  to  deal  with 


Hinduism  and  Mohammedanism  with  all  their 
deadening  influence  upon  the  social  life.  During 
the  long  period  of  waiting  in  the  early  history 
of  the  mission,  stations  were  established  at  On- 
gole,  Nellore  and  Secunderabad.  In  1878  came 
the  great  Pentecostal  blessing,  and  with  it  the 
necessity  for  the  immediate  and  extensive  en¬ 
largement.  In  recent  years  the  great  Ongole  field 
with  its  church  of  many  thousands  has  been 
divided  and  many  new  centres  established.  New 
stations  have  also  been  opened  in  the  Deccan, 
where  the  work  is  largely  among  Mohammedans. 
Events  of  the  past  year  give  ground  for  hope 
that  the  bonds  of  caste  are  beginning  to  loosen. 
In  one  field  a  number  of  Sudras  have  been 
baptized  who  were  brought  to  Christ  by  despised 
non-caste  preachers  and  Bible  women. 

Many  problems  confront  the  missionaries  in 
this  field.  The  endeavor  to  train  the  Telugu 
Christians  along  the  lines  of  self-reliant  and  self- 
sustaining  church  organization  enlists  the  inter¬ 
est  and  the  earnest  thought  of  all  the  workers. 
As  factors  that  will  contribute  largely  to  this  ob¬ 
ject,  as  well  as  to  the  general  ends  of  evangeliza¬ 
tion  and  social  progress,  are  the  theological  semi¬ 
nary  at  Ramapatan,  the  college  at  Ongole,  and 
plans,  as  yet  in  infancy,  for  industrial  training, 
together  with  an  extensive  system  of  primary, 
secondary  and  high  schools  which  are  efficient 
auxiliaries  in  extending  the  knowledge  and  influ¬ 
ence  of  Christian  truth.  This  field  reports  over 
55,000  converts,  while  the  working  force  consists 
of  99  missionaries  and  over  1300  native  helpers. 
The  number  of  stations  is  28. 

4.  CHINA 

Of  the  mission  fields  of  to-day  none  has  a 
stronger  hold  upon  the  thought  and  interest  of 
the  church  than  the  great  empire  of  China. 
Within  a  decade  after  the  death  of  Robert  Mor¬ 
rison,  Protestantism’s  pioneer  in  China,  the  Mis¬ 
sionary  Union  had  begun  work  in  the  southern 
and  eastern  part  of  the  empire.  Ten  years  earlier 
the  first  Chinese  converts  had  been  received  by 
our  missionaries  at  Bangkok  in  Siam,  where 
a  number  of  the  earlier  Chinese  missionaries 
served  their  apprenticeship.  Both  Swatow  and 
Ningpo  have  proved  to  be  fruitful  centres  from 
which  other  stations  have  been  opened.  Of  grow¬ 
ing  importance  to  the  work  both  in  South  and 
the  East  China  fields  are  the  theological  schools 
conducted  at  Swatow  and  Shaohsing  for  the 
training  of  those  who  are  to  aid  in  giving  to  China 
the  gospel  of  the  living  God. 

Not  until  1889  was  any  effort  made  to  penetrate 
to  the  interior  of  China.  Now,  Suifu,  Kiating 
andYachow  are  three  centres  of  light  in  the  prov¬ 
ince  of  Szchuan,  bordering  upon  the  forbidden 
land  of  Tibet.  A  station  has  also  been  estab- 


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lished  in  Hangyang,  one  of  the  three  cities  unit¬ 
ing  to  form  the  great  centre  at  the  confluence  of 
the  Han  and  Yangtse  rivers. 

Since  the  interruption  in  1900  unparalleled  op¬ 
portunities  have  offered  on  every  side,  and  the 
work  has  been  pressed  with  renewed  vigor  in  the 
Eastern,  Southern,  Western  and  Central  China 
missions.  Since  that  date  27  new  missionaries 
have  joined  the  workers  in  China,  six  of  whom 
in  1903  undertook  the  long  and  dangerous  journey 
up  the  Yangtse  river  into  western  China.  The 
four  missions  now  present  a  total  of  15  stations 
and  87  missionaries,  with  273  native  helpers  and 
a  membership  of  4259. 

5.  JAPAN 

Protestant  mission  work  was  begun  in  Japan 
in  1860,  six  years  after  Commodore  Perry’s  appear¬ 
ance  before  the  gates  of  the  empire.  The  work 
begun  by  Jonathan  Goble  of  the  Free  Mission 
Society  was  taken  over  by  the  Missionary  Union  in 
1872,  when  that  missionary  pioneer,  Dr.  Nathan 
Brown,  was  sent  out  to  assume  charge  of  the  work 
in  this  new  field  so  marvelously  opened.  The 
work  begun  at  Yokohama  and  Tokyo  has  ex¬ 
panded  during  thirty  years  until  now  nine  sta¬ 
tions  are  in  operation,  two  of  which  are  on  the 
northern  island  of  Hokkaido.  Fifty-eight  mis¬ 
sionaries  are  credited  to  this  field.  They  have 
the  assistance  of  124  native  workers  in  caring  for 
over  2000  Christians  and  in  presenting  the  claims 
of  the  gospel  to  the  many  millions  of  heathen. 

The  Japanese  have  welcomed  with  amazing 
eagerness  the  material  aspects  of  Western  life. 
While  not  equally  receptive  of  the  spiritual  teach¬ 
ing  of  Christianity,  they  have  been  remarkably 
approachable  and  the  progress  already  made  in¬ 
spires  the  workers  with  courage  and  hope.  Pecu¬ 
liarly  interesting  phases  of  the  work  are  the  efforts 
to  reach  and  uplift  the  degraded  people  of  the 
Liu  Chiu  Islands  and  the  visitation  of  the  number¬ 
less  islands  of  the  Inland  Sea  by  means  of  the 
“  Fukuin  Maru  ”  or  Gospel  Ship. 

6.  AFRICA 

It  was  not  until  1884,  when  Dr.  Guinness 
transferred  to  it  a  number  of  the  stations  of  the 
Livingstone  Inland  Mission,  that  the  Missionary 
Union  undertook  work  in  the  great  dark  continent. 
The  very  year  in  which  the  transfer  was  com¬ 
pleted  witnessed  the  beginning  of  a  great  revival 
centering  in  Banza  Manteke  in  which  hundreds 
accepted  Christ.  The  chain  of  stations  along  the 
mighty  Congo  River  from  Mukimvika  on  the 
coast  to  Ikoko  300  miles  above  Stanley  Pool  is  about 
the  same  in  number  as  at  the  beginning,  though 
some  have  been  abandoned  or  transferred  to  other 
societies,  while  some  new  ones  have  been  estab¬ 
lished.  Many  noble  lives  have  been  given  up  in 


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the  endeavor  to  bring  light  and  life  to  the  de¬ 
graded  and  unhappy  people  of  the  Congo  State. 
Yet  they  have  not  been  without  their  fruitage, 
and  to-day  the  mission  stations  are  little  oases  of 
peace  and  safety  in  a  region  where  cruelty  and 
oppression  abound.  Thirty-two  missionaries 
carry  on  the  work  at  eight  stations,  aided  by  306 
native  helpers.  Their  converts  number  3692. 

7.  PHILIPPINE  ISLANDS 

As  a  result  of  the  treaty  of  Paris  the  Philippine 
Islands  were  opened  to  Protestant  missionary 
effort.  The  Missionary  Union  by  a  remarkable 
providence  was  able  to  share  in  the  opportunity 
thus  presented  and  to  enter  the  field  equipped 
for  immediate  activity.  Work  was  begun  among 
the  people  speaking  the  Visayan  dialect. 
Workers  already  familiar  with  the  language  were 
able  to  meet  the  people  at  the  beginning  with 
portions  of  the  New  Testament  in  their  own 
tongue.  In  1900  a  station  was  opened  at  Jaro 
on  the  island  of  Panay  and  another  the  following 
year  at  Bacolod  on  the  island  of  Negros.  The 
year  1903  has  seen  the  establishment  of  a  third 
station  at  Capiz  in  the  northern  part  of  Panay. 
From  the  first  missionaries  were  astonished  at  the 
great  eagerness  of  the  people  to  hear  the  Bible 
message,  and  there  remains  to-day  a  spirit  of 
open  mindedness  to  the  truth  and  a  desire  to  ex¬ 
amine  carefully  the  teaching  of  the  Word  that 
are  equally  surprising  when  we  consider  the  long 
centuries  of  Catholic  domination.  The  mission¬ 
aries  of  all  denominations  are  convinced  that  this 
is  a  day  of  golden  opportunities.  The  mission 
has  been  weakened  by  the  enforced  withdrawal  of 
some  of  the  workers,  but  the  work  has  been 
strongly  reinforced  and  it  is  hoped  that  by  the 
close  of  the  present  year  the  missionary  force 
will  be  measurably  adequate  to  the  urgent  calls. 
A  noble  band  of  native  workers  is  being  gathered 
about  the  missionaries,  and  in  these  three  short 
years  a  membership  of  425  has  been  enrolled. 

8.  EUROPE 

In  several  of  the  countries  of  Europe  the  Mis¬ 
sionary  Union  in  earlier  years  maintained  mis¬ 
sionaries  to  aid  in  spreading  the  principles  of 
Baptist  faith  and  practice.  The  method  now 
adopted  is  that  of  giving  aid  to  the  churches 
through  a  committee  of  brethren  in  those  coun¬ 
tries,  who  oversee  and  direct  the  work.  This  is 
true  in  France,  Germany,  Sweden,  Russia,  Fin¬ 
land,  Denmark  and  Norway.  In  Spain  the  older 
method  is  still  in  force.  Though  bitter  opposition 
has  been  experienced,  in  many  cases,  from  the 
authorities  of  state  and  priestly  churches,  the 
progress  has  been  steady  and  encouraging.  The 
work  has  had  the  greatest  success  in  Sweden, 


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Germany  and  Russia,  where  the  members  of 
Baptist  churches  number  40,000,  30,000  and  20,- 
000  respectively.  The  Russian  Baptists  or  Men- 
nonites,  in  addition  to  furthering  the  work  in  their 
own  land,  have  sent  several  missionaries  to  the 
Telugus  and  contribute  a  large  part  of  their  sup¬ 
port. 

In  all  of  these  great  fields  evidences  of  the 
favor  of  God  have  been  multiplied.  Yet  the 
fruitage  already  seen  is  but  an  earnest  of  rich 
blessings  for  the  future.  From  every  field  comes 
the  call  to  press  forward  and  possess  the  promised 
land.  Never  before  have  the  people  been  so 
seriously  attentive  to  the  gospel  message  as  pro¬ 
claimed  by  missionaries  and  native  preachers. 
Never  before  have  Christian  schools  enjoyed  such 
opportunities  of  inculcating  the  truths  of  Chris¬ 
tianity.  Never  before  have  medical  missionaries 
found  the  people  so  ready  to  accept  spiritual 
ministration.  In  every  line  of  missionary  activ¬ 
ity  the  worker  stands  before  wide  open  doors  of 
invitation  that  he  longs  to  enter.  “If  the 
churches  could  only  see  the  need  and  the  oppor¬ 
tunity,”  is  the  missionary’s  cry.  The  need  for 
men  is  urgent  to  occupy  and  hold  the  ground 
already  gained,  and  when  this  need  is  met  there 
remain  the  innumerable  calls  from  the  regions 
beyond.  Just  a  step  in  advance  from  many  of 
the  present  stations  would  mean  the  occupation 
of  positions  of  great  strategic  importance  in  the 
battle  of  our  Lord  against  the  forces  of  evil  in 
the  heathen  world. 

III.  ADMINISTRATION 

The  organization  through  which  the  members  of 
our  Baptist  churches  are  enabled  to  share  in 
these  world-wide  activities  of  the  Kingdom,  is 
the  American  Baptist  Missionary  Union.  This 
Society  chooses  its  officers  and  Board  of  Managers 
at  its  annual  meeting,  held,  as  are  those  of  the 
other  national  societies,  in  connection  with  the 
May  anniversaries;  the  Secretaries,  Treasurer 
and  the  Executive  Committee  being  elected  by 
the  Board  of  Managers.  The  President  of  the 
Union  is  Hon.  H.  Kirke  Porter,  of  Pennsylvania; 
the  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Managers  is  Pro¬ 
fessor  William  Arnold  Stevens,  LL.  D.,  of  New 
York. 

THE  EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE 

Administrative  authority  is  held  and  exercised 
in  the  intervals  between  the  annual  meetings  of 
the  Union  by  an  Executive  Committee  of  fifteen 
ministers  and  laymen.  The  Chairman  of  the 
Committee  is  President  Nathan  E.  Wood,  D.  D., 
of  Newton  Theological  Institution.  Upon  this 
Committee  rests  the  responsibility  for  the  over¬ 
sight  and  direction  of  all  the  work  of  the  Mission- 


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ary  Union  at  home  and  abroad.  Meetings  of  the 
Committee  are  held  twice  each  month.  Under 
the  direction  of  the  Executive  Committee  the 
work  of  the  Union  is  conducted  by  departments 
with  clearly  defined  spheres  of  activity. 

THE  HOME  DEPARTMENT 

The  administration  of  the  Home  Department 
is  in  charge  of  Henry  C.  Mabie,  D.  D.,  the  Home 
Secretary.  Under  his  direction  are  all  home 
agencies  for  the  cultivation  of  the  missionary 
spirit  in  the  churches,  the  collection  of  funds, 
and  the  seeking  of  suitable  candidates  for  mis¬ 
sionary  service.  In  1903,  Rev.  E.  H.  Dutton 
was  associated  with  Dr.  Mabie  as  Assistant  Sec¬ 
retary,  with  special  oversight  of  work  among  the 
young  people  of  the  denomination.  Miss  Ella  D. 
MacLaurin  is  also  associated  with  the  Home  De¬ 
partment  in  the  work  for  the  young  people.  Also 
under  the  direction  of  the  Home  Secretary  are 
the  nine  District  Secretaries  through  whom  the 
churches  in  the  various  sections  of  the  North  are 
brought  into  more  vital  relation  with  the  mission¬ 
ary  work  as  conducted  by  the  Missionary  Union. 
A  list  of  the  District  Secretaries  follows : 

NEW  ENGLAND  DISTRICT  (Maine,  New  Hamp¬ 
shire,  Vermont,  Massachusetts,  Rhode  Island 
and  Connecticut) — W.  E.  Witter, 'M.  D.,  D.  D.,  Dis¬ 
trict  Secretary,  Tremont  Temple,  Boston,  Mass. 

NEW  YORK  DISTRICT  (New  York  and  New  Jersey 
— four  Associations:  East  New  Jersey,  North  New 
Jersey,  Morris  and  Essex,  Monmouth)— Rev. 
Charles  L.  Rhoades,  District  Secretary,  312  Fourth 
Avenue,  New  York. 

SOUTHERN  DISTRICT  (Pennsylvania,  Delaware 
and  New  Jersey  —  four  Associations:  Camden, 
West,  Trenton,  Central— District  of  Columbia 
and  States  South  and  Miscellaneous)  —  Rev. 
Frank  S.  Dobbins,  District  Secretary,  1420  Chest¬ 
nut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

MIDDLE  DISTRICT  (Ohio  and  West  Virginia) — 
Rev.  T.  G.  Field,  District  Secretary,  Granville, 
Ohio. 

LAKE  DISTRICT  (Illinois,  Indiana  and  Michigan) 
— E.  W.  Lounsbury.  D.  D.,  District  Secretary, 
324  Dearborn  Street,  Chicago,  Ill. 

NORTHWESTERN  DISTRICT  (Wisconsin,  Minne¬ 
sota,  South  Dakota,  North  Dakota,  Montana  and 
part  of  Idaho)— F,  Peterson,  D.  D.,  District  Secre¬ 
tary,  1901  Fifteenth  Avenue,  S.,  Minneapolis, 
Minn. 

SOUTHWESTERN  DISTRICT  (Kansas,  Colorado, 
Oklahoma,  Indian  Territory,  New  Mexico,  Utah 
and  Arkansas)— I.  N.  Clark,  D.  D.,  District  Sec¬ 
retary.  1334  Olive  Street,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

MIDDLE  WESTERN  DISTRICT  (Iowa,  Nebraska 
and  Wyoming)— Henry  Williams,  D.D.,  District 
Secretary,  1233  Thirteenth  Street,  Des  Moines, 
Iowa. 

PACIFIC  COAST  DISTRICT  (California,  Oregon, 
Washington,  N.  W.  Idaho,  Arizona  and  Nevada) — 
Rev.  A.  W.  Rider,  District  Secretary,  906  Broad¬ 
way,  Oakland,  Cal. 

Manly  J.  Breaker,  D.D.,  402  Board  of  Education  Build¬ 
ing,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  also  acts  as  a  special  agent  for 
the  Missionary  Union  in  Missouri. 


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THE  FOREIGN  DEPARTMENT 

The  work  of  the  Foreign  Department  is  con¬ 
ducted  by  Thomas  S.  Barbour,  D.  D.,  the  Foreign 
Secretary.  To  this  department  belongs  the 
supervision  of  the  work  of  the  missionaries  of  the 
Union  in  all  its  great  fields.  The  election  of  com¬ 
mittees  of  reference  for  advisory  action  upon  the 
field,  and  the  assignment  to  sections  of  the  Ex¬ 
ecutive  Committee  of  particular  fields  for  more 
thorough  and  careful  deliberation  upon  all  ques¬ 
tions  relative  to  them,  combine  to  secure  the  full¬ 
est  consideration  with  regard  to  all  contemplated 
action. 

THE  TREASURY 

The  Treasurer  of  the  Missionary  Union  is  Mr. 
Charles  W.  Perkins,  who  in  1903  was  chosen  to 
the  office  so  long  occupied  by  Mr.  E.  P.  Coleman. 
All  the  funds  of  the  Union  are  in  his  charge.  In¬ 
vestments  are  made  by  him  with  the  approval  of 
the  Finance  and  Executive  Committees,  and  he 
sends  to  the  field  all  money  to  be  expended  in 
mission  work,  as  directed  by  the  Executive  Com¬ 
mittee. 

LITERATURE  DEPARTMENT 

This  department  is  in  charge  of  the  Editorial 
Secretary,  Rev.  F.  P.  Haggard.  Its  task  is  to 
furnish  the  churches  with  bright,  interesting 
and  instructive  literature  covering  the  entire  field 
of  the  Union’s  activity.  This  it  seeks  to  do  by 
the  publishing  of  The  Baptist  Missionary  Magazine 
and  leaflets  presenting  various  phases  of  the 
work  abroad  or  some  motive  or  appeal  for  a 
larger  missionary  interest.  The  Editorial  Secre¬ 
tary  is  also  the  Recording  Secretary  of  the  Exec¬ 
utive  Committee,  and  has  in  his  care  the  records 
of  the  Committee,  the  archives  of  the  Union,  and 
other  miscellaneous  details  connected  with  the 
office  administration. 

The  headquarters  of  the  Missionary  Union  are 
in  Tremont  Temple,  Boston,  Massachusetts. 

ENLARGEMENT  AND  OUTREACH 

Recent  years  have  witnessed  many  important 
advances  in  the  work  of  the  Missionary  Union. 
Many  new  missionaries  have  enlisted  to  share  in 
the  service  which  the  Union  seeks  to  render  to 
the  peoples  of  many  lands.  A  corresponding  en¬ 
largement  of  the  home  agencies  has  been  neces¬ 
sary  for  the  adequate  maintenance  and  direction 
of  the  work  abroad.  The  larger  interest  among 
the  members  of  the  churches  has  made  possible 
this  forward  movement  to  meet  the  urgent  demands 
of  the  work.  The  constituency  of  the  Missionary 
Union  is  thus  reaching  out  through  its  various 
agencies  in  the  endeavor  to  render  a  larger  obe¬ 
dience  to  our  Lord’s  great  command  to  “disciple 
all  the  nations.” 


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THE 

AMERICAN  BAPTIST  HOME 
MISSION  SOCIETY 


METROPOLITAN  BUILDING,  NEW  YORK 


ORGANIZATION  AND  METHODS 

RGANIZED  in  New  York  City, 
April  27,  1832.  Its  object:  “To 
promote  the  preaching  of  the  Gos¬ 
pel  in  North  America.”  Its  general 
offices :  The  Metropolitan  Building, 
corner  Fourth  Avenue  and  Twenty- 
third  Street,  New  York  City.  Its 
officers:  A  President,  two  Vice-Presidents,  Cor¬ 
responding  Secretary,  Treasurer,  Two  Auditors, 
Recording  Secretary,  and  an  Executive  Board  of 
21  members  in  three  classes  elected  each  for 
three  years.  The  Society  meets  annually  in  May; 
the  Executive  Board  the  second  Monday  of  each 
month,  except  August.  Several  assistants  at  the 
Rooms  are  required  for  the  large  correspondence 
and  work  of  the  Society. 

There  are  also  a  Field  Secretary  and  an  Edi¬ 
torial  Secretary,  with  five  Superintendents  of 
Missions,  three  for  the  West,  one  each  for  the 
Germans  and  French  Canadians;  and  general 
missionaries  for  other  nationalities.  In  addition 
to  this,  there  is  union  of  effort  according  to  defin¬ 
ite  plans  of  co-operation  with  about  forty  other 
organizations,  as  State  Conventions,  City  Mission 
Societies,  etc. 

The  thirty-three  Northern  and  Western  States 
and  Territories  are  divided  into  ten  districts,  each 
in  charge  of  a  District  Secretary  for  the  cultiva¬ 
tion  of  the  missionary  spirit  in  about  9,000 
churches,  with  nearly  or  quite  a  million  members. 

There  are  three  great  departments  of  work: 
(1)  Missionary;  (2)  Church  Edifice;  (3)  Educa¬ 
tional.  For  each  of  these  features,  other  denomi¬ 
nations  generally  have  separate  societies  with  a 
full  complement  of  officers;  but  with  us  all  are 
under  one  organization,  at  the  minimum  of  ex¬ 
pense  for  administration. 


MEMBERSHIP 

The  Society  shall  be  composed  as  follows : 

1.  Individual  annual  members  upon  the  payment  of 
ten  dollars. 

2.  Annual  members  appointed  by  contributing 
churches  on  the  basis  of  one  for  each  church;  and  an 
additional  member  for  each  $50.00  contributed  ;  pro¬ 
vided  that  no  church  be  entitled  to  more  than  ten 
members. 


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3,  Honorary  life  members,  whether  so  constituted  by 
the  payment,  either  by  themselves,  by  friends,  or 
by  churches,  of  $50.00.  Every  such  member  shall 
have  a  vote  in  the  meetings  of  the  Society,  so  long 
as  he  continues  to  be  an  annual  contributor  to  the 
treasury.  But  no  person  shall  vote  in  the  meetings 
of  the  Society  who  is  not  a  member  in  good  standing 
of  a  regular  Baptist  church. 

4.  All  persons  constitued  Members  for  Life  previous  to 
June  1,  1902. 

MAGNITUDE  OF  OPERATIONS 

Its  work  is  prosecuted  in  every  State  and  Ter¬ 
ritory  of  the  Union,  in  Alaska,  Porto  Rico,  Cuba, 
Mexico,  and  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  among  23 
different  nationalities  or  peoples.  In  the  older 
states  work  is  carried  on  almost  exclusively  among 
the  foreign  populations;  in  the  West,  among  all; 
in  the  South,  among  the  Negroes;  and  among  the 
Spanish-speaking  peoples  of  Porto  Rico,  Cuba 
and  Mexico.  For  the  year  ending  March  21, 
1904,  the  Society  issued  1430  commissions  to  its  ap¬ 
pointees,  not  including  the  wives  of  missionaries, 
as  usually  reckoned  in  the  force  on  foreign  fields; 
it  supported  wholly  or  in  part  31  schools  for  the 
Negroes  and  Indians;  and  aided  in  the  erection 
of  102  meeting  houses.  Its  missionary  force  last 
year  was  distributed  as  follows:  In  the  New 
England  States,  59;  in  the  Middle  and  Central 
States,  133;  in  the  Southern  States,  238;  in  the 
Western  States  and  Territories  and  Alaska,  907; 
in  the  Canadian  Dominion,  10;  in  Mexico,  22;  in 
Cuba,  11;  in  Porto  Rico,  15. 

Its  missionaries  have  reported  5832  churches 
organized;  184,490  persons  baptized,  and  quite  as 
many  more  received  by  letter  and  experience; 
over  six  million  religious  visits  made;  a  vast 
number  of  copies  of  the  Scriptures  sold  and  dis¬ 
tributed;  over  10,000  Sunday  Schools  organized; 
and  a  very  large  number  of  meeting  houses 
erected.  Nearly  or  quite  100,000  have  received 
Christian  instruction  in  its  schools  for  the  colored 
people  and  the  Indians. 

Altogether,  its  work  was  never  larger,  never  more 
prosperous  and  promising  than  now.  The  Society 
is  the  great  pioneer  evangelizing  and  constructive 
Home  Missionary  organization  of  American 
Baptists. 

I.  MISSIONARY  DEPARTMENT 

Varied  Nature  of  the  Work.  There  are 
five  distinct  sub-divisions  of  its  mission  field: 
(1)  To  Americans;  (2)  To  the  foreign  populations 
from  Europe  and  the  Orient;  (3)  To  the  Indians; 
(4)  To  the  Negroes;  (5)  To  the  Spanish-speaking 
peoples  of  neighboring  countries. 

THE  PIONEER  PREACHER  AND  PASTOR 

From  1832,  when  its  westernmost  fields  were 
Michigan,  Illinois  and  the  Eastern  settlements  of 
Missouri  and  Arkansas,  its  missionaries  have  kept 


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pace  with  the  expansion  of  the  country,  going  to 
Texas  in  1840;  to  Oregon  in  1845;  to  California 
in  1849;  to  Utah,  briefly,  in  1870,  and  continu¬ 
ously  since  1881;  to  Alaska  in  1886;  and  into 
other  regions  before  the  construction  of  trans¬ 
continental  railways,  then  occupying  nearly  every 
new  point  of  importance  along  these  and  other 
lines.  The  pioneer  exploring  missionary  in  the 
most  heroic  and  self-denying  spirit  went  by  prim¬ 
itive  modes  of  travel  over  prairies,  into  mining 
camps  and  agricultural  settlements  and  new 
towns,  preaching  the  gospel,  reclaiming  wander¬ 
ers,  organizing  churches  and  Sunday  Schools, 
distributing  the  Scriptures,  and  securing  the 
erection  of  houses  of  worship.  In  several  Western 
States  and  Territories  this  pioneer  work  is  still  go¬ 
ing  on  extensively.  Missionary  pastors  often  have 
from  five  to  ten  preaching  out-stations.  Many 
churches  become  self-supporting  every  year,  but 
quite  as  many  new  ones  need  our  aid.  Liberal 
appropriations  are  required  to  keep  pace  with  the 
great  growth  of  the  West.  In  many  Western 
States  most  of  the  churches  have  had  the  foster¬ 
ing  care  of  the  Society  and  have  become  in  turn 
generous  contributors  to  all  of  our  denominational 
enterprises.  From  broad  Home  Mission  fields, 
sown  and  tilled  by  this  Society,  rich  harvests  are 
reaped  annually  in  the  interests  of  foreign  mis¬ 
sions  ;  and  the  harvest  will  be  larger  in  the  future 
for  every  new  church  established  now. 

WORK  FOR  THE  FOREIGN  PEOPLES 

Our  work  among  the  foreign  populations  began 
as  follows:  Welsh,  1836;  Germans,  1846;  Scan¬ 
dinavians,  1848;  French  Canadians,  1849;  Mexi¬ 
cans,  1870;  Chinese,  1870;  and  from  1887  suc¬ 
cessively  for  the  next  ten  years  among  the  Bohe¬ 
mians,  Poles,  Portuguese,  Finns,  Italians,  Jews, 
Hollanders  and  Japanese;  and  recently  among 
the  Hungarians,  Slavs  and  Russians.  There  are 
299  missionaries  among  these  peoples  and  nearly 
60,000  members  in  foreign  speaking  Baptist 
churches  in  our  land,  while  thousands  more,  es¬ 
pecially  of  the  second  generation,  have  become 
identified  with  American  churches.  The  great 
immigration  hither  brings  an  enormous  and  needy 
foreign  mission  field  to  our  own  door. 

During  the  year  1903  the  number  of  steerage 
immigrants  reached  the  enormous  total  of  814,507. 
Of  these  230,622  came  from  Italy;  206,011  from 
Austria-Hungary;  136,093  from  Russia;  40,086 
from  Germany;  46,028  from  Sweden.  Many  of 
these  are  illiterates ;  the  vast  majority  of  them  are 
Romanists.  This  influx  brings  with  it  both  peril 
and  opportunity — peril  that  forebodes  disaster 
unless  the  opportunity  is  seized.  The  evangeli¬ 
zation  of  the  alien  is  one  of  the  great  problems  of 
Home  Missions,  and  demands  more  laborers  and 
more  money. 


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NEGRO  MISSIONARIES 

There  are  40  Negro  Baptist  missionaries  in  the 
service  of  the  Society,  most  of  these  in  the  W est- 
ern  States;  14  in  the  South,  whose  work  is  chiefly 
in  holding  Ministers’  Institutes  for  those  who  had 
very  limited  educational  advantages. 

AMONG  THE  INDIANS 

The  Society  has  missionaries  among  15  Indian 
tribes :  Cherokees,  Creeks,  Choctaws,  Chickasaws, 
Seminoles,  Delawares,  Osages,  in  Indian  Territory ; 
Kiowas,  Comanches,  Wichitas,  Caddoes,  Arap- 
ahoes  and  Cheyennes,  in  Oklahoma;  the  Nava- 
joes  in  New  Mexico;  and  the  Crows  in  Montana. 
The  transformation,  in  ten  years,  of  the  Kiowas 
has  been  wonderful.  The  new  mission  to  the 
Crow  Indians  of  Montana  is  very  hopeful.  There 
are  about  4500  Indian  Baptists,  most  of  whom  are 
among  the  five  civilized  tribes  in  Indian  Territory. 

WORK  IN  MEXICO 

Our  work  in  five  States  of  the  Republic  of 
Mexico  is  steadily  advancing.  Principal  missions 
are  in  New  Laredo,  Monterey,  San  Luis  Potosi, 
Aguas  Calientes,  City  of  Mexico,  Puebla.  The 
Society  has  aided  in  the  erection  of  seven  houses 
of  worship  there.  La  Luz,  a  semi-monthly  Bap¬ 
tist  paper,  is  published  at  our  mission  press  in  the 
City  of  Mexico. 

PORTO  RICO  AND  CUBA 

In  Porto  Rico,  occupied  early  in  1899,  we  have 
21  principal  stations  and  nearly  30  minor  stations, 
over  800  members  and  church  property  worth 
$20,000.  In  the  two  eastern  provinces  of  Cuba, 
we  have  20  principal  stations  and  about  20  minor 
ones;  nearly  500  members,  and  church  property 
worth  $35,000.  A  Spanish  Baptist  paper  for  each 
island  has  just  been  published.  The  opportuni¬ 
ties  here  are  remarkable. 

EVANGELIZATION 

Special  attention  in  recent  years  has  been  given 
to  the  evangelization  of  our  great  cities,  the  So¬ 
ciety  co-operating  with  Baptist  City  Mission 
Societies  in  Boston,  Brooklyn,  Buffalo,  Detroit, 
Chicago  and  St.  Louis.  Much  more  should  be 
done  in  this  direction. 

From  the  outset  the  work  of  the  Society  has 
been  primarily  and  distinctively  evangelistic.  Its 
missionaries  have  been  evangelists.  During  the 
past  year,  by  means  of  conferences  on  evangelism 
and  by  the  presentation  of  the  matter  in  meetings 
of  State  Conventions  and  other  affiliated  bodies, 
it  has  taken  the  lead  in  the  promotion  of  wisely- 
directed  and  comprehensive  evangelistic  efforts. 
Its  work  in  this  direction  has  been  limited  by  lack 
of  means,  and  it  only  awaits  larger  offerings  for 
more  far  reaching  and  effective  service.  With 
$25,000  at  its  disposal  for  this  purpose  a  mighty 
work  could  be  done. 


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II.  CHURCH  EDIFICE  WORK 

The  Loan  and  Gift  Funds.  The  Society 
aids  mission  churches  to  erect  houses  of  worship, 
both  by  loans  and  gifts.  The  Loan  Fund  was  es¬ 
tablished  on  a  good  basis  from  1870-4;  the  Gift 
Fund  was  established  in  1881.  The  income  from 
the  principal  of  the  Gift  Fund  is  about  $10,000 
annually,  or  not  one-fifth  the  amount  needed. 
The  main  reliance  therefore  is  upon  personal  con¬ 
tributions  designated  for  this  purpose.  The  loans 
are  at  five  per  cent.,  to  be  repaid  in  annual  in¬ 
stalments  within  five  years.  Gifts  are  so  secured 
that  in  case  a  church  becomes  extinct,  or  ceases  to 
be  a  Baptist  church,  the  amount  may  be  recovered 
and  used  elsewhere.  For  every  hundred  dollars 
given,  three  or  four  times  the  amount  is  secured  by 
the  stimulus  thus  afforded.  Last  year  102  churches 
were  aided;  20  by  loans;  77  by  gifts;  and  five  both 
by  gifts  and  loans.  The  loans  amounted  to  $1 6,050 ; 
the  gifts  to  $57,951.88.  At  least  $60,000  is  needed 
annually  for  the  Gift  Fund.  The  pressing  need  just 
now  is  for  chapels  for  our  young  churches  in  Cuba 
and  Porto  Rico.  A  few  hundred  dollars  given  to 
a  struggling  mission  church  at  the  critical  moment 
in  its  building  enterprise  is  an  incalculable  bless¬ 
ing;  often  indeed  saves  the  enterprise  from  failure. 

III.  EDUCATIONAL  WORK 

Work  for  the  Colored  People.  In  a  very 
simple  and  humble  way  the  Society  began  its 
educational  work  for  the  unlettered  Freedmen  in 
1862.  It  was  primarily  for  ministers  who  could 
not  read  their  Bibles,  but  others  without  educa¬ 
tional  opportunities  and  eager  to  learn  could  not 
be  turned  away.  Step  by  step  the  schools  devel¬ 
oped  into  established  institutions;  property 
was  bought  and  buildings  were  erected  mainly  by 
special  gifts  for  these  purposes.  With  the  in¬ 
crease  of  the  colored  people  from  4,000,000  to 
9,000,000;  and  of  colored  Baptists  from  400,- 
000  to  nearly  2,000,000  in  forty  years,  there  has 
been  an  increasing  demand  for  better  schools  than 
the  low  grade  public  schools  of  about  four  months 
in  the  year.  The  bulk  of  students  take  only 
academic  courses;  a  very  small  per  cent,  are  in 
college  courses ;  a  large  proportion  are  preparing 
to  teach;  and  about  500  students  for  the  ministry 
are  enrolled  yearly.  Generally,  the  schools  are  co¬ 
educational;  Spelman  Seminary,  of  Atlanta,  and 
Hartshorn  College,  of  Richmond,  are  for  young 
women  only. 

There  are  12  higher  and  19  secondary  schools. 
The  Richmond  Theological  Seminary,  at  Virginia 
Union  University,  has  a  three  years’  course  for 
advanced  ministerial  students  ;  while  also  there 
and  at  ten  other  institutions  provision  is  made 
for  those  taking  short  and  partial  courses.  There 
is  an  excellent  medical  school  at  Shaw  University, 
Raleigh,  N.  C. ;  also  a  law  school.  The  training  of 


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teachers  is  a  prominent  feature  in  most  institu¬ 
tions.  Industrial  education  for  both  sexes  receives 
considerable  attention,  some  schools  having  good 
equipment  for  this  purpose.  With  proper  re¬ 
sources  much  more  would  be  undertaken. 

The  Society’s  distinctive  aim  in  this  work  is  to 
develop  intelligent  Christian  character  and  wise 
leadership.  The  Bible  is  studied  daily  in  these 
schools ;  hundreds  of  students  are  converted  every 
year;  nobler  ideals  of  life  are  inculcated;  the 
missionary  spirit  for  service  at  home  and  abroad 
is  cultivated,  so  that  thousands  of  teachers  have 
proved  a  spiritual  blessing  to  young  and  old 
where  they  have  taught;  ministers  have  wrought 
in  a  more  consecrated  spirit;  and  a  goodly  num¬ 
ber  have  gone  as  missionaries  to  Africa.  These 
institutions  are  rendering  an  invaluable  service 
in  furnishing  qualified  leaders  in  educational  and 
religious  enterprises  for  the  22,000  public  schools 
and  the  15,000  Baptist  churches  of  the  colored 
people.  Most  of  the  influential  men  and  women 
among  the  colored  Baptists  are  products  of  these 
schools.  Nearly  8000  pupils  were  enrolled  last  year 
in  all  the  foregoing  schools. 

OTHER  SCHOOLS 

For  the  Indians  there  are  two  similar  schools  in 
Indian  Territory,  to  which,  however,  white  students 
also  are  admitted.  A  better  native  ministry  is 
greatly  needed  for  the  Indian  Baptist  churches. 

For  these  higher  schools  especially,  a  partial 
endowment  of  at  least  a  million  dollars  is  impera¬ 
tively  demanded ;  and  special  funds  for  needy  and 
worthy  students  for  the  ministry. 

Besides  these,  there  are  eight  day  schools  for  the 
Chinese;  four  for  the  Mexicans  in  New  Mexico  and 
in  the  Republic  of  Mexico;  and  one  for  Cuba. 
Evangelization  and  edification  must  go  together 
in  the  elevation  of  unfortunate  and  uncultured 
peoples. 

IV.  LITERATURE 

Home  Mission  Literature.  The  Baptist 
Home  Mission  Monthly ,  full  of  interesting  inform¬ 
ation  about  the  whole  field  and  finely  illustrated, 
ought  to  be  in  the  hands  of  every  pastor,  Sunday 
School  Superintendent,  and  Young  People’s  So¬ 
ciety,  and  in  tens  of  thousand  Baptist  homes. 
Single  subscriptions  are  only  fifty  cents  a  year, 
with  a  half  rate  of  twenty-five  cents  to  pastors; 
club  rates  as  low  as  thirty  cents.  Send  for 
sample  copy.  The  Editorial  Secretary  has  charge 
of  The  Monthly ,  and  assists  in  the  preparation  of 
special  leaflets  and  pamphlets  on  the  various 
phases  of  the  Society’s  work.  Most  of  these  are 
for  gratuitous  distribution  and  can  be  obtained 
upon  application  to  the  Home  office,  or  to  any  of 
the  District  Secretaries. 

Those  who  are  preparing  programs  for  Mis¬ 
sionary  meetings,  and  all  who  desire  to  obtain 


full  information  concerning  a  work  vital  to  the 
welfare  of  our  country,  should  avail  themselves 
of  the  Society’s  publications.  These  cover  the 
subjects  of  Immigration  and  the  Evangelization 
of  Foreign  Peoples,  Work  in  Cuba,  Porto  Rico, 
Indian  Missions,  The  Negro  Schools  and  Ministry. 
Send  for  catalogue  of  literature,  and  for  special 
offers  in  connection  with  The  Monthly. 

V.  IN  GENERAL 

Other  Matters.  To  answer  frequent  inquiries 
it  may  be  said  that  the  Woman’s  American 
Baptist  Home  Mission  Society  (Boston)  is  in 
auxiliary  relations  with  the  American  Baptist 
Home  Mission  Society,  its  work  being  chiefly 
educational;  most  of  its  annual  resources,  or  about 
$20,000  annually,  passing  through  the  treasury 
of  the  parent  society  for  support  of  appointees 
commissioned  upon  its  recommendation.  The  co¬ 
operative  arrangement  includes  the  joint  publica¬ 
tion,  at  Boston,  of  “ Home  Mission  Echoes ”  in  the 
interests  of  both  organizations. 

The  Woman’s  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society 
(Chicago)  is  quite  independent  in  most  respects, 
as  in  the  selection  of  fields,  the  appointment, 
direction  and  payment  of  its  workers.  Of  its  re¬ 
ceipts  only  about  $4,500  annually,  mostly  desig¬ 
nated,  comes  into  the  Treasury  of  the  general 
Society. 

To  Young*  People’s  Societies  and  Sunday 

Schools  the  American  Baptist  Home  Mission 
Society  has  hitherto,  for  many  years,  made  no 
special  appeal  for  specific  objects,  but  has  thrown 
its  influence  in  favor  of  having  these  organizations 
consider  themselves  as  integral  parts  of  church 
life  and  work,  and  so  to  give  with  the  churches 
rather  than  separately.  But  force  of  circum¬ 
stances  may  compel  it  reluctantly  to  abandon 
this  position  in  order  to  secure  proper  recognition 
of  its  work  and  proportionate  offerings  for  it. 
Christian  patriotism  as  well  as  Christian  duty  to 
the  unevangelized  millions  of  America  call  for 
their  help.  This  Home  Mission  work  has  special 
claims  upon  all  our  young  people;  inasmuch  as 
it  seeks  the  salvation  of  the  multitudes  of  young 
men  who  have  gone  West;  establishes  and  main¬ 
tains  Sunday  Schools  with  its  mission  churches 
and  stations;  and  seeks  the  religious  and  in¬ 
tellectual  betterment  of  hosts  of  youth  in  its 
Christian  schools. 

The  Society  earnestly  asks  every  Young  Peo¬ 
ple’s  Society  and  every  Sunday  School  care¬ 
fully  to  consider  how  great  are  the  claims  of  its 
vast  and  varied  work  upon  them,  and  to  give  it  a 
rightful  and  proportionate  place  in  their  meetings, 
in  their  prayers,  and  in  their  offerings.  For  these 
purposes  interesting  literature  will  be  sent  on 
application  to  the  Society  or  to  any  of  its  District 
Secretaries,  whose  addresses  are  herewith  given. 


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EXECUTIVE  OFFICERS 

Henry  L.  Morehouse,  D.  D. 
Corresponding  Secretary 

Frank  T.  Moulton 
Treasurer 

E.  E.  Chivers,  D.  D. 

Field  Secretary 

Rev.  Howard  B.  Grose 
Editorial  Secretary 

Rev.  Alex.  Turnbull 
Assistant  Corresponding  Secretary 

D.  W.  Perkins,  Esq. 

Church  Edifice  Work 

GENERAL  SUPERINTENDENTS 

N.  B.  Rairden,  D.  D„,  Omaha,  Neb. 

C.  A.  Wooddy,  D.  D.,  Portland,  Ore. 

O.  A.  Williams,  D.D.,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Rev.  J.  N.  Williams,  Providence,  R.  I. 
French  Missions, 

Rev.  G.  A.  Schulte,  West  Hoboken,  N.  Y. 
German  Missions 

DISTRICT  SECRETARIES 

F.  T.  Hazlewood,  D.  D. 

New  England — Maine,  New  Hampshire,  Vermont,  Massa¬ 
chusetts,  Rhode  Island,  Connecticut— Tremont 
Temple,  Boston,  Mass. 

Samuel  McBride,  D.  D. 

New  York — N.  Y.  and  Northern  New  Jersey — Metropoli¬ 
tan  Building,  312  Fourth  Ave.,  New  York  City. 

E.  B.  Palmer,  D.  D. 

Philadelphia— Southern  New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania,  Dela¬ 
ware,  and  District  of  Columbia— 1420  Chestnut  St. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 

E.  H.  E.  Jameson,  D.  D. 

Lake— Michigan  and  Ohio — 106  Smith  Ave.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Rev.  S.  C.  Fulmer 

Wabash— Indiana  and  South  Illinois — 1732  Ruckle  St. 
Indianapolis,  Ind. 

J.  B.  Thomas,  D.  D. 

Chicago — Northern  Illinois  and  Wisconsin— 324  Dearborn 

St.,  Chicago,  Ill. 

O.  A.  Williams,  D.  D. 

Upper  Mississippi  —  Minnesota,  North  Dakota  and  South 
Dakota— Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Rev.  D.  D.  Proper 

Central— Iowa,  Nebraska,  Colorado  and  Wyoming — 
Des  Moines,  Iowa. 

Rev.  James  H.  Franklin 
Southwestern— Kansas,  Indian  Territory,  Oklahoma, 
New  Mexico  and  Arizona — Muskogee,  I.  T. 

C.  A.  Wooddy,  D.  D. 

Pacific  Coast— Oregon,  Washington,  Idaho,  Nevada, 
Montana,  Alaska  and  California— 302  Goodnough 
Building,  Portland,  Ore, 

Rev.  John  S.  Stump 

Kanawha— West  Virginia— Parkersburg,  W.  Va. 

BEQUESTS  AND  ANNUITIES 

The  proper  form  of  bequest  to  the  Society  is  as  follows: 
“  I  give  and  bequeath  to  the  American  Baptist  Home 
Mission  Society,  formed  in  New  York  in  the  year  eighteen 

hundred  and  thirty-two,  the  sum  of  — - for  the  general 

purposes  of  said  Society.” 

If  for  special  objects,  e.  g.,  for  Church  Edifice  Work, 
or  for  Schools  for  the  Negroes  or  Indians,  it  should  be  so 
dcsi  ^DS/tcd » 

Write  to  the  Corresponding  Secretary  for  particulars 
about  the  Society’s  annuity  plan  for  large  donors  who 
prefer  to  be  their  own  executors. 


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THE  AMERICAN  BAPTIST 
PUBLICATION  SOCIETY 

HE  American  Baptist  Publication 
Society  began  its  existence  in 
Washington,  D.  C.,  February  24th, 
1824.  In  1826  it  was  removed  to 
Philadelphia  where  it  has  remained 
ever  since.  Its  first  work  consisted 
in  the  publication  of  denominational 
and  evangelistic  tracts.  Pamphlets  and  books 
were  soon  added.  In  1840  it  began  missionary 
work  by  the  employment  of  colporters,  antedat¬ 
ing  in  this  form  of  Christian  service  all  other 
religious  organizations.  In  1855  it  entered  dis¬ 
tinctively  into  Sunday  School  work  by  the  ap¬ 
pointment  of  Sunday  School  missionaries  and  the 
publication  of  Sunday  School  periodicals.  In  1883 
the  Bible  work  of  the  denomination  was  placed  in 
its  charge.  In  1891  it  began  its  Chapel  Car  work. 
The  growth  of  the  Society  has  been  along  the 
lines  of  a  normal  and  natural  development. 

DEPARTMENTS 

The  operations  of  the  Society  are  grouped  into 
four  distinct  departments.  1.  The  Publishing 
Department.  2.  The  Missionary  Department. 
3.  The  Bible  Department.  4.  The  Benevolent 
Department. 

The  Publication  Department  attends  to  the 
publication  and  sale  of  Bibles,  books,  pamphlets, 
tracts,  Sunday  School  papers  and  periodicals  and 
Church  and  Sunday  School  supplies  of  all  sorts. 
It  not  only  takes  care  of  itself,  but  pays  the  ad¬ 
ministrative  expenses  of  the  other  departments, 
amounting  to  about  $10,000  per  year. 

The  Missionary  Department  attends  to  the 
employment  and  support  of  Colporter,  Sunday 
School  and  Chapel  Car  Missionaries.  For  this 
work  it  uses  the  income  of  funds  specially  desig¬ 
nated  for  that  purpose;  money  received  from 
bequests,  the  proceeds  of  Children’s  Day  and  the 
contributions  of  individuals  and  churches. 

The  Bible  Department  attends  to  the  publi¬ 
cation  and  distribution  of  the  Bible  in  many  lan¬ 
guages.  It  gives  the  Word  of  God  without  charge 
to  Baptist  Churches,  Sunday  Schools,  Educa¬ 
tional  Institutions,  Missionaries  and  others  not 
able  to  purchase  for  themselves.  For  this  work 
it  uses  the  proceeds  of  Bible  Day,  the  income 
derived  from  funds  specially  designated  for  Bible 
work,  and  the  contributions  of  churches  and  in¬ 
dividuals.  One  third  of  the  proceeds  of  Bible  Day 
received  from  the  Home  Field  of  the  American 


id 


Baptist  Missionary  Union  is  given  to  that  organi¬ 
zation  for  its  Bible  work  abroad,  and  a  consider¬ 
able  amount  each  year  is  appropriated  to  the  For¬ 
eign  Board  of  the  Southern  Baptist  Convention 
for  its  Bible  Work. 

The  Benevolent  Department  gives  to  needy 
Churches,  Sunday  Schools,  ministers  and  minis¬ 
terial  students,  the  books,  pamphlets,  tracts  and 
periodicals  issued  by  the  Society,  using  for  this 
purpose  the  income  of  funds  placed  in  its  hands 
and  the  profits  arising  from  sales. 

FACILITIES 

For  the  prosecution  of  its  work  the  Publication 
Society  maintains  headquarters  in  Crozer  Build¬ 
ing  at  1420  Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
In  this  building  a  considerable  part  of  its  Mission¬ 
ary  and  Benevolent  Funds  are  advantageously 
invested.  It  also  owns  and  operates  a  Printing 
House  at  1329  Lombard  Street,  Philadelphia, 
thus  saving  to  the  denomination  the  profits  of 
manufacture.  For  the  accommodation  of  Baptists 
throughout  the  entire  country  it  has  established 
and  maintains  at  considerable  expense,  six 
branches.  These  are  situated  in  Boston,  New 
York,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  and 
Dallas,  Texas.  It  also  employs  agencies  in  many 
large  cities  of  the  United  States,  and  has  busi¬ 
ness  connections  with  Baptist  houses  in  Toronto, 
Canada;  London,  Eng.;  Stockholm,  Sweden, 
and  Cassel,  Germany.  It  thus  puts  itself  in  con¬ 
nection  not  only  with  Baptists  throughout  the 
United  States  but  throughout  the  world.  It  is 
more  than  national,  it  is  international. 

WORK  ALREADY  DONE 

The  Publishing  Department  from  the  begin¬ 
ning  has  issued  publications  of  all  kinds  under 
about  3,000  titles.  If  all  the  printed  matter  thus 
far  issued  from  the  Society’s  presses  were  gath¬ 
ered  into  12mo.  volumes  of  250  pages  each,  the 
total  number  of  volumes  would  be  in  the  neigh¬ 
borhood  of  100,000,000. 

The  Missionary  Department  from  the  be¬ 
ginning  to  April  1st,  1903,  has  employed  4,281  mis¬ 
sionaries.  These  missionaries  have  visited  1,775,- 
121  families,  have  sold  and  given  away  1,044,- 
814  books,  have  baptized  30,792  persons,  have 
constituted  1,429  churches,  have  organized  12,- 
892  Sunday  Schools  and  have  held  13,848  Sun¬ 
day  School  Institutes. 

The  Bible  Department  has  raised  and  distri¬ 
buted  since  1883,  the  sum  of  $303,051.26,  of  which 
$48,031.36  have  been  given  to  the  Missionary 
Union  and  $13,000  to  the  Foreign  Board  of  the 
Southern  Baptist  Convention. 


The  Benevolent  Department  has  aided 
24,101  Sunday  Schools,  churches  and  individuals 
by  donations  of  scriptures,  books,  periodicals,  and 
tracts,  and  has  bestowed  grants  for  libraries  upon 
8,955  pastors  and  ministerial  students,  at  a  total 
money  value  of  $446,291.65.  ; 

THE  SCOPE  OF  WORK 

It  is  the  function  of  the  Publication  Society  to 
provide  for  Baptist  people  the  literature  needed 
in  the  Church,  the  Sunday  School,  and  the  home, 
and  thus  to  bring  to  bear  upon  the  various  de¬ 
partments  of  life  and  work  to  which  our  people 
are  related  the  universally  acknowledged  power 
of  the  press.  Every  effort  is  made  to  give  Bap¬ 
tists  such  books,  pamphlets,  tracts,  papers  and 
periodicals  as  will  enable  them  to  live  the  lives 
and  do  the  work  demanded  by  the  present  age. 

It  is  its  function,  as  well,  to  see  that  this  liter¬ 
ature  is  scattered  abroad  in  our  own  and  other  ; 
lands.  To  fulfill  this  function  the  Missionary,  . 
Bible  and  Benevolent  Departments  are  an  abso¬ 
lute  necessity.  Without  Colporters,  Sunday 
School  and  Chapel  Car  Missionaries,  the  work  of 
the  Society  would  be  sadly  crippled.  Directly 
and  indirectly  the  missionaries  of  the  Society  are 
the  right  hand  of  its  power.  Without  them  it 
would  degenerate  into  a  mere  business  corporation 

MISSIONARY  WORK  IN  DETAIL 

The  Missionary  operations  of  the  Society  in¬ 
clude,  as  previously  stated,  three  departments, 
Colporter,  Sunday  School  and  Chapel  Car  work. 

It  is  the  duty  of  the  Colporter  Missionary 
to  visit  the  homes  of  those  who  dwell  in  sparsely  j 
settled  regions  and  in  the  congested  districts  of 
our  great  cities,  and  to  carry  with  him  wherever 
he  goes  the  Word  of  God  and  good  religious  and 
denominational  literature.  Wherever  it  is  possi¬ 
ble  to  do  so  he  gathers  the  people  into  prayer 
meetings,  establishes  Sunday  Schools  and  lays  the 
foundations  for  subsequent  Christian  enterprises. 

He  thus  reaches  those  who  are  generally  outside 
of  ordinary  religious  agencies  and  deals  personally 
with  individual  souls.  In  order  to  make  his  work 
more  effective  he  is  being  provided,  in  recent 
years,  with  a  Colporter  wagon.  The  Society  now 
has  in  use  43  of  these  wagons  and  is  adding  con¬ 
stantly  to  their  number.  There  are  at  present 
102  Colporter  Missionaries,  operating  in  30  States 
and  Territories  of  this  country,  in  Cuba  and  in 
Finland.  These  men  and  women  work  not  only 
amongst  English  speaking  people  but  amongst 
the  Swedes,  Danes,  Norwegians,  Germans, 
French,  Italians,  Spanish,  Portugese,  Finns, 
Chinese,  Japanese,  and  the  Negroes  of  the  South. 


The  Sunday  School  is  pre-eminently  the 
field  of  the  Publication  Society.  In  a  very  special 
sense  progress  made  in  Sunday  School  work  in 
our  denomination  depends  very  largely  upon 
its  direction  and  help.  It  has  now  in  its  service 
47  Sunday  School  Missionaries  operating  in  29 
States  and  Territories.  These  missionaries  give 
their  time  and  strength  not  simply  to  the  estab¬ 
lishment  of  Sunday  Schools,  but  to  the  organiza¬ 
tion  and  improvement  of  Sunday  School  work.  It 
is  their  duty  to  create  interest  in  this  most  im¬ 
portant  field  of  Christian  labor,  to  hold  institutes 
for  the  instruction  of  Sunday  School  officers  and 
teachers,  and  to  labor  in  every  way  for  the  upbuild¬ 
ing  of  the  Sunday  School  cause.  A  number  of  them 
are  working  in  co-operation  with  State  Boards. 
One  of  them  in  three  years  of  wise  and  inspiring 
leadership  was  the  means  of  adding  600  Sunday 
Schools  to  the  Baptist  forces  of  a  Western  State. 
The  good  they  do  is  incalculable. 

The  Chapel  Car  work  is  the  Society’s  most 
recent  enterprise.  The  first  of  these  cars  was  built 
in  1891.  The  other  five  have  followed  at  irregular 
intervals,  the  last  having  been  put  upon  the  field 
in  1900.  These  cars  reach  the  growing  towns  and 
villages  of  the  frontier  in  which  usually  there  are 
no  churches  or  religious  services  whatever.  They 
also  help  to  resuscitate  discouraged  or  abandoned 
churches  and  provide  religious  privileges  to  rail¬ 
road  men  at  division  points  and  in  connection  with 
railroad  shops.  No  form  of  Christian  work  in  our 
day  has  been  so  owned  of  God.  Thus  far  the  faith¬ 
ful  missionaries  on  these  cars  have  been  the  means 
of  at  least  12,000  conversions,  have  founded  112 
churches,  established  225  Sunday  Schools  and 
have  assisted  in  the  erection  of  105  meeting 
houses.  The  Baptisms  growing  immediately 
out  of  Chapel  Car  work  amount  to  41,085.  Prob¬ 
ably  no  expenditure  of  money  in  Christian  work 
on  any  field  has  produced  results  so  great  and  far- 
reaching. 

PRESENT  NEEDS 

The  Publishing  Department  needs  the  more 
general  support  of  the  denomination  in  the  pur¬ 
chase  and  use  of  its  books,  periodicals  and  other 
publications.  These  publications  are  of  the  most 
varied  character  and  of  the  highest  grade.  Many 
of  the  brightest  and  best  men  and  women  in  our 
denomination  are  engaged  in  producing  them. 
If  the  Society  could  have  the  undivided  patron¬ 
age  of  all  Baptist  churches,  Sunday  Schools  and 
individuals,  it  would  be  able  to  transfer  thousands 
of  dollars  each  year  to  Missionary  and  Benevo¬ 
lent  work.  Its  expenses  would  not  be  appreci¬ 
ably  increased  and  the  profits  would  be  multiplied. 


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The  Missionary  Department  needs  a  larger 
support  from  churches  and  individuals.  Its  work 
is  too  great  to  be  carried  on  by  the  profits  of  the 
business  and  the  offerings  of  the  Sunday  Schools. 
We  should  have  in  the  present  time  $200,000  an¬ 
nually  for  Colporter  Missionaries,  $100,000  for 
Sunday  School  Missionaries  and  $25,000  for 
Chapel  Car  work.  The  calls  for  enlargement  in 
this  department  are  loud  and  constant.  If  we 
had  the  funds  we  could  put  into  the  field  at  once 
200  Colporter  wagons  and  half  as  many  Sunday 
School  Missionaries. 

The  Bible  Department  needs  a  reinforce¬ 
ment  of  interest.  There  are  still  in  our  own  land 
thousands  of  homes  without  a  copy  of  the  Word  of 
God  and  thousands  of  Baptist  churches  and  Sun¬ 
day  Schools  are  too  poor  to  provide  themselves 
with  this  most  important  of  books.  We  ought  also 
to  be  able  to  respond  to  the  fullest  extent  to  the 
calls  coming  to  us  for  Bibles  from  our  new  pos¬ 
sessions  and  to  be  able  to  put  more  money  into 
the  hands  of  the  Missionary  Union  and  the 
Foreign  Board  of  the  Southern  Baptist  Conven¬ 
tion  for  Bible  work  abroad. 

The  Benevolent  Department  needs  a  larger 
income.  A  number  of  noble  Christian  men  and 
women  have  placed  in  our  hands  funds,  the  in¬ 
terest  of  which  will  be  perpetually  used  to  supply 
the  needs  of  other  less  fortunate  brethren  and 
sisters,  but  the  income  from  these  funds  is  by  no 
means  sufficient.  We  should  have  at  least  five 
dollars  for  every  one  we  are  now  able  to  command. 

DIRECTIONS 
FOR  CORRESPONDENCE 

All  communications  relating  to  the  general  in¬ 
terest  of  the  Society  should  be  addressed  to  A . 
J.  Rowland,  D.  D.,  General  Secretary,  1420 
Chestnut  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

All  communications  relating  to  Missionary  and 
Bible  work  and  all  applications  for  grants  should 
be  addressed  to  R.  G.  Seymour,  D.  D.,  Missionary 
and  Bible  Secretary,  1420  Chestnut  Street,  Phila¬ 
delphia,  Pa. 


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OFFICERS  OF  THE  SOCIETY 


Samuel  A.Crozer,  Esq. 
President 

W.  Howard  Doane,  Mus.  Doc. 
Vice  President 

Hon.  J oshua  Levering 
Vice  President 

D.  C.  Hughes,  D.  D. 

Vice  President 

A.  J.  Rowland,  D.  D.,  L.  L.  D. 

Secretary  &  Acting  Treasurer 

R.  G.  Seymour,  D.  D. 
Missionary  &  Bible  Secretary 

J.  G.  Walker,  D.  D. 
Recording  Secretary 

H.  S.  Hopper,  Esq. 

Treasurer 

P.  L.  Jones,  D.  D. 

Book  Editor 

C.  R.  Blackall,  D.  D. 
Editor  of  Periodicals 

M.  Strien 
Business  Manager 

Boston  W.  Smith 
Manager  of  Chapel  Cars 


DISTRICT  SECRETARIES 

C.  H.  Spalding,  D.  D. 

New  England,  256  Washington  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 

J.  B.  Simmons,  D.  D. 

New  York,  132  East  23d  St.,  N.  Y.  City 

S.  N.  Vass,  D.  D. 

Southern  District,  Raleigh,  N.  C. 

Rev.  T.  L.  Ketman 

Western  District,  177  Wabash  Ave.,  Chicago,  Ill. 
O.  F.  Flippo,  D.  D. 

Middle  District,  1420  Chestnut  St.,  Philadelphia 

T.  J.  Walne,  D.  D. 

Southwestern  District,  Dallas,  Texas 

Rev.  Harvey  Hatcher 
Middle  Southern  District,  37  S.  Pryor  St.  Atlanta,  Ga. 


WOMAN’S  BAPTIST  FOREIGN 
MISSIONARY  SOCIETY 

TREMONT  TEMPLE,  BOSTON,  MASS. 

Miss  Sarah  C.  Durfee,  Providence, R.  I. 

Corresponding  Secretaries 
Foreign  Department,  Mrs.  H.  G.  Safford 
Home  Department,  Mrs.  N.  M.  Waterbury 
Treasurer,  Miss  Alice  E.  Stedman 

HE  Society  was  organized  April  3, 
1871,  in  Clarendon  Street  Church, 
Boston,  in  response  to  the  appeals 
from  missionaries  in  Burma,  and 
with  the  cordial  approval  and  co¬ 
operation  of  the  American  Baptist 
Missionary  Union,  to  which  it  is 
auxiliary.  Its  leading  object  is  the  Christianiza¬ 
tion  of  women  in  foreign  lands;  this  to  be  ac¬ 
complished  as  far  as  possible  by  furnishing  sup¬ 
port,  through  the  American  Baptist  Missionary 
Union,  to  Christian  women  employed  by  the  Un¬ 
ion  as  missionaries,  native  teachers,  or  Bible  read¬ 
ers.  Its  officers  include  a  board  of  twelve  Directors, 
elected  at  the  annual  meeting,  which  is  held  in 
April,  at  such  time  and  place  as  the  Directors 
appoint.  The  Directors  are  to  devise  and  use 
means  for  diffusing  missionary  intelligence  among 
the  women  of  the  churches,  in  order  to  create 
interest  in  and  secure  funds  for  the  special  work 
of  the  Society;  also  to  recommend  to  the  Mis¬ 
sionary  Union  suitable  women  for  missionaries, 
designate  the  particular  use  of  the  Society  funds 
by  the  Union,  and  do  all  other  necessary  business. 

FOREIGN  DEPARTMENT 

The  Society  now  supports  81  missionaries,  in 
eight  countries,  the  Philippine  Islands  having 
been  recently  added  to  the  list.  It  also  grants 
appropriations,  all  the  way  from  $50  to  $1,000 
annually,  to  61  other  missionaries  of  the  Union  for 
educational,  evangelistic  and  medical  work. 
There  are  149  native  Bible  women  engaged  in  evan¬ 
gelistic  work  among  the  women,  touring  among 
the  villages  and  conducting  gospel  services  for 
women.  The  schools  under  the  care  of  the  Society 
number  503,  with  18,449  pupils.  These  schools 
range  in  grade  from  little  village  day  schools, 
where  heathen  children  are  taught  to  read  and 
write  and  given  some  knowledge  of  the  Bible,  to 
the  advanced  High  School  with  large  boarding  de¬ 
partments,  in  which  are  being  trained  the  future 
evangelists,  teachers  and  preachers  for  the  Mission. 

The  Medical  Department  sustains  four  hos¬ 
pitals  and  several  dispensaries  in  India,  and  is 
especially  useful  in  training  Christian  nurses, who 
are  in  great  demand. 

The  Summary  according  to  fields  follows: 

Africa,  135  schools,  4,517  pupils;  3  Bible  women; 


369  baptisms.  Telugu  Mission,  128  schools,  3,542 
pupils;  82  Bible  women;  126  baptisms.  Assam, 
112  schools,  2,235  pupils;  135  baptisms.  Burma, 
101  schools,  6,883  pupils;  20  Bible  women;  191 
baptisms.  China,  13  schools,  478  pupils;  20  Bible 
women;  41  baptisms.  Japan,  14  schools,  794 
pupils;  16  Bible  women;  38  baptisms.  France 
and  Switzerland,  8  Bible  women. 

HOME  DEPARTMENT 

Funds  are  secured  by  contributions  sent  through 
local  auxiliary  circles  of  women,  the  young 
women’s  societies  known  as  Farther  Lights, 
Children’s  Mission  Bands  and  Junior  Endeavor 
Societies,  primary  classes  in  Sunday  School,  and 
the  Cradle  Roll. 

Summary  ;  Circles,  1623,  with  40,000  mem¬ 
bers;  about  500  organizations  for  young  women, 
with  10,000  members;  and  470  bands  and  organ¬ 
izations  with  14,000  members. 

The  annual  receipts  are  about  $120,000. 

LITERATURE  DEPARTMENT 

Here  may  be  obtained  Annual  Reports  of  the 
Society,  Studies  on  Missions  for  women,  girls  and 
children,  leaflets,  stories  and  poems,  mite  boxes 
and  collection  envelopes.  The  entire  list  is  given 
in  our  Catalogue  of  Publications. 

The  Helping  Hand  is  the  organ  of  the  Society. 
It  is  published  monthly,  25  cents  per  year,  and 
has  a  circulation  of  about  22,000.  The  Society 
also  publishes,  in  connection  with  the  Missionary 
Union,  a  paper  for  children  and  young  people 
called  Around  the  World ,  which  has  a  paid  circu¬ 
lation  of  over  20,000.  It  is  especially  adapted 
for  use  in  Sunday  Schools. 

SPECIAL  SERVICE 

The  Home  for  the  Children  of  Missionaries,  at 
Newton  Centre  is  one  of  many  agencies  for  aiding 
in  the  work  of  the  Union  by  providing  a  pleasant 
and  safe  home  where  the  missionaries  may  send 
their  children  for  education  and  training.  This 
Home  was  opened  in  May,  1882,  and  has  dur¬ 
ing  the  past  year  been  filled  to  overflowing;  25 
children  have  been  accommodated.  There  is  the 
beginning  of  an  Endowment  Fund,  but  at  present 
the  home  is  assisted  by  contributions  from  indi¬ 
viduals  and  Sunday  Schools,  the  parents  meeting 
the  expenses  of  the  children’s  board. 

Hasseltine  House  holds  an  important  relation 
to  the  Society,  as  here  the  young  women  who 
go  out  as  missionaries  may  receive  a  year’s  training 
in  Bible  study  in  the  Newton  Theological  Insti- 
tion,  under  the  care  and  direction  of  an  exper¬ 
ienced  missionary.  It  was  built  and  is  sustained 
almost  entirely  by  the  gifts  of  individuals  who 
are  interested  in  the  best  possible  intellectual 
and  spiritual  equipment  of  our  missionaries  in 
foreign  lands. 


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THE  TREASURY 

In  sending  money  to  the  Woman’s  Baptist 
Foreign  Missionary  Society  all  checks,  drafts 
and  Post  Office  Orders  should  be  made  payable 
to  Alice  E.  Stedman,  Treasurer,  and  addressed  to 
her.  To  constitute  a  life  member,  $25  must  be  paid 
at  the  same  time;  and  as  the  same  money  can¬ 
not  make  life  members  and  also  maintain  the 
annual  memberships,  the  life  memberships  should 
be  extra.  The  financial  year  closes  March  31st. 

FORM  OF  BEQUEST 

I  give  and  bequeath  to  the  Woman’s  Baptist 
Foreign  Missionary  Society,  $  .  .  .  .  for  the  pur¬ 
poses  of  the  Society  as  specified  in  the  act  of 
incorporation. 

(Those  desiring  to  give  for  specific  purposes  can  insert 
after  the  word  “for,”  in  place  of  the  words  above  given, 
the  object  desired,  as  “  Endowment  Fund  of  Home  for 
Children  of  Missionaries,”  “Endowment  Fund  of  Hassel- 
tine  House,”  or  “Building  Fund.”) 


WOMAN’S  BAPTIST  FOREIGN 
MISSIONARY 
SOCIETY  OF  THE  WEST 

1318  MASONIC  TEMPLE,  CHICAGO,  ILL. 

President ,  Mrs.  John  Edwin  Scott 
Foreign  Secretary,  Mrs.  Frederick  Clatworthy 
Home  Secretary ,  Miss  Julia  L.  Austin 
Treasurer ,  Mrs.  Matilda  E.  Kline 

HIS  Society  was  organized  May 
9,  1871.  To  organize  the  women, 
young  ladies  and  children  in  every 
church;  to  provide  instruction  and 
stimulating  helps  in  the  form  of 
leaflets,  pictures,  maps  and  studies ; 
and  to  secure  a  contribution  from 
every  one  of  these  without  diminishing  the  gifts 
to  any  other  worthy  object — were  stipulated  aims. 
The  ultimate  object  was  to  reach  with  the  gospel 
the  Zenana-imprisoned  women  and  others  who 
could  not  be  reached  by  the  agencies  already  on 
the  field. 

The  two  general  departments  are  the  cultivation 
of  the  Home  field  and  the  evangelization  of  the 
Foreign.  For  the  former  we  have  a  Home  Sec¬ 
retary,  State  and  Associational  Secretaries,  who 
by  correspondence,  visiting,  and  printing  press, 
endeavor  to  lay  the  work  of  the  Society  upon  the 
hearts  of  our  constituency,  and  secure  funds  for 
its  prosecution.  For  the  Foreign  work  the  ob¬ 
ject  is  to  seek  and  recommend  to  the  Executive 
Committee  of  the  American  Baptist  Missionary 
Union,  suitable  women  for  missionaries,  to  pro¬ 
vide  for  their  support  and  that  of  native  helpers. 


such  as  teachers  and  Bible  women,  together  with 
the  facilities  needed  for  their  work. 

THE  FIELDS 

To  Burma  Miss  A.  L.  Stevens  was  sent  in 
1871,  and  located  at  Bassein,  in  the  Sgaw  Karen 
department.  Other  stations  were  supplied  in  the 
following  order:  Toungoo,  Mandalay,  Moulmein, 
Rangoon,  Tavoy,  Henzada,  Tharrawadi,  Shwe- 
gyin,  Loikaw,  and  Thaton.  Thirty-two  mission¬ 
aries  have  worked  in  this  field  during  S3  years. 
The  Society  sent  workers  to  Assam  in  1872,  who 
have  occupied  Nowgong  and  Gowhati.  Ten 
young  women  have  served  there. 

The  Telugus  in  South  India  have  heard  the 
gospel  message  from  thirteen  messengers  of  the 
Cross,  located  at  Hanamakonda,  Ramapatam, 
Nellore,  Secunderabad,  Cumbum,  Ongole  and 
Vinukonda. 

Swatow,  China,  welcomed  a  worker  from  this 
Society  in  1876.  Thirty  most  efficient  and  con¬ 
secrated  women  have  occupied  Swatow,  Ningpo, 
Hankow,  Yachau,  Kayin,  Suifu,  and  Kityang. 

To  the  Sunrise  Kingdom  missionaries  were 
sent  in  1886.  Eleven  have  labored  in  Sendai, 
Chofu,  Kobe,  and  Osaka. 

Africa  has  had  two  missionaries  and  now  the 
Philippines  have  the  Society’s  first  representative. 

Schools  are  conducted  by  most  of  these 
missionaries,  in  which  they  teach  the  Bible,  win 
the  young  to  Christ  and  train  them  in  Christian 
living.  These  in  turn  become  teachers  in  jungle 
and  town  schools,  or  are  centres  of  influence  in 
their  native  villages. 

Bible  Woman’s  work  is  an  important  factor 
in  evangelizing  pagan  peoples.  Bible  training 
schools  are  established  in  which  native  Christian 
women  who  show  aptitude  for  telling  the  story  of 
redeeming  love  are  gathered,  taught  to  read  and 
explain  the  Bible,  to  pray  and  sing  and  lead 
souls  to  Christ.  They  go  out  as  did  the  early 
disciples  two  and  two  under  the  direction  of  the 
missionary.  The  long-closed  Zenana  receives  these 
visitors  and  in  many  cases  accepts  their  teaching. 

Medical  Work  was  opened  in  Swatow,  China, 
in  1878.  Six  well-equipped  doctors  have  been  sent 
to  Swatow  and  Kit  Yang  district,  another  to  Han¬ 
kow,  and  three  to  Burma.  The  medical  profession 
often  opens  long  closed  doors  and  closed  hearts. 

The  Home  for  the  Children  of  Mission¬ 
aries  is  a  sort  of  addendum  to  the  work  of  the 
Society— a  helping  hand  to  the  Missionary  Union, 
as  it  cares  for  the  children  of  missionaries,  thus 
enabling  the  parents  to  continue  their  work.  It 
was  opened  in  1893;  a  good  substantial  house  was 
built  and  entered  in  1899,  at  a  cost  of  $8500.  It 
has  sheltered  children  from  all  our  mission  fields. 

The  Society  has  raised  $1,025,146,  and  sup¬ 
ported  113  missionaries. 


WOMEN’S  BAPTIST  HOME 
MISSION  SOCIETY 

2411  INDIANA  AVENUE,  CHICAGO,  ILL. 

President,  Mrs.  J.  N.  Crouse 
Corresponding  Sec’y,  Miss  Mary  G.  Burdette 
Treasurer,  Mrs.  A.  H.  Barber 


HE  Women’s  Baptist  Home  Mis¬ 
sion  Society  was  organized  in 
Chicago,  February  1,  1877,  and  duly 
incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the 
State  of  Illinois,  its  distinctive 
object  being  the  Christianization 
and  consequent  purification  and 
elevation  of  home  life  among  non-Christian 
and  degraded  populations.  In  undertaking  this 
department  of  denominational  work  the  purpose 
was  to  do  so  as  an  ally  of  the  American  Baptist 
Home  Mission  Society,  the  work  of  the  Women’s 
Society  supplementing  that  of  the  general  organ¬ 
ization. 


MISSIONARIES  AND  FIELDS 

One  hundred  and  seventy  missionaries  bear  the 
Society’s  commission  March  31,  1904.  These 
missionaries  are  Baptist  women  of  various  nation¬ 
alities  whose  qualifications  for  the  service  required 
have  been  tested,  and  whose  gifts,  as  a  rule,  have 
been  developed  by  a  course  of  special  study  and 
training. 

The  Fields  include  Americans,  Negroes, 
Indians,  European  and  Asiatic  immigrant  pop¬ 
ulations,  Mormons,  Mexicans,  Cubans,  Porto 
Ricans  and  Jamaicans  in  Central  America. 

TRAINING  SCHOOL 

Over  six  hundred  young  women  have  been  en¬ 
rolled  in  the  Baptist  Missionary  Training  School 
carried  on  under  the  auspices  of  the  Society,  and 
located  at  its  headquarters  in  Chicago.  But  in 
this  school  students  are  trained  for  all  lines  of 
Christian  work  open  to  women,  whether  in  our 
own  country  or  in  foreign  lands,  and  its  grad¬ 
uates  are  laboring  in  all  parts  of  the  world. 

Colored  workers  receive  similar  training  for 
work  among  their  own  people  in  Caroline  Bishop 
Training  School,  Dallas,  Texas,  supported  wholly 
by  the  Society,  and  in  the  Missionary  Training 
School  of  Shaw  University,  in  whose  support 
the  Women’s  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society  co¬ 
operates  with  the  American  Baptist  Home  Mis¬ 
sion  Society. 


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METHODS 

I.  ON  MISSION  FIELD 

1.  House  to  house  visitation  and  ministry.  2. 
Mothers’  meetings,  Parents’  Conferences  and 
Women’s  Classes.  3.  Industrial  and  Sunday 
Schools  and  Children’s  meetings.  4.  Fireside 
schools  and  Bible  Bands.  5.  Local  training 
classes  for  native  workers  and  Missionary  Train¬ 
ing  Schools  for  women’s  work.  6.  Co-operation 
with  the  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society 
in  the  support  of  Matrons  in  schools  among 
Negroes  and  Indians. 

II.  ORGANIZATION  FOR  SUPPORT 

1.  Branches:  Auxiliary  societies  composed  of 
women  in  local  churches.  Annual  membership, 
$1.00;  life  membership,  $25.00.  2.  What  I  Can 

Societies:  Organizations  of  young  ladies.  Annual 
membership,  $1.00;  life  membership,  $10.00.  3. 

Missionary  Gardeners:  This  term  includes  all 
junior  helpers  and  Mission  Bands  composed  of 
girls  and  boys  from  8  to  15  years  of  age.  Annual 
membership,  25  cents;  life  membership,  $2.00.  4. 
Baby  Band  :  Children  up  to  and  including  seven 
years  of  age.  Annual  membership,  10  cents;  life 
membership,  $1.00. 

LITERATURE 

I.  Tidings:  The  official  organ  of  the  Society,  a 
thirty-six  page  magazine  published  monthly,  ap¬ 
propriately  and  attractively  illustrated,  and  con¬ 
taining  information  concerning  every  department 
of  the  work.  Subscription  price,  25  cents  per  year. 
II.  Home  Mission  Lessons:  1.  For  Adults — A 
series  of  eighteen  lessons  arranged  for  circle  study. 
25c.  per  full  set,  2c.  per  single  copy.  2.  For 
Juniors — Eight  lessons  in  a  little  book.  Price  5c. 
3.  For  Little  Ones — Eight  leaflet  lessons,  5c.  for 
set.  III.  Historical  Sketches:  Eight  of  these 
sketches  now  ready;  when  completed  the  series 
will  include  about  fifteen  illustrated  pamphlets, 
of  from  60  to  80  pages  each,  sketching  the  work 
of  the  Society  on  its  various  fields.  Price  10c. 
each.  IV.  Booklets:  Our  Trio  at  Rainy  Mountain; 
The  Heroine  at  Saddle  Mountain;  From  Tent  to 
Chapel;  Mexico,  Pagan  and  Papal.  All  finely 
illustrated.  Price  15c.  each.  V.  Besides  those 
mentioned,  a  large  and  varied  assortment  of  pam¬ 
phlets,  leaflets  and  folders,  furnishing  material 
for  Home  Mission  study,  meetings  and  programs 
for  young  and  old.  Send  for  full  catalogue. 

MONEY  AND  CORRESPONDENCE 

All  money  designed  for  the  Women’s  Baptist 
Home  Mission  Society  should  be  sent  to  the 
Treasurer,  2411  Indiana  Avenue,  Chicago,  Ill.  All 
other  correspondence  should  be  addressed  to  the 
Corresponding  Secretary,  2411  Indiana  Avenue, 
Chicago,  Ill. 


THE  WOMAN’S  AMERICAN 
BAPTIST  HOME  MISSION 
SOCIETY 

510  TREMONT  TEMPLE.  BOSTON 


President ,  Mrs.  Alice  B.  Coleman 
Corresponding  Secretary ,  Mrs.  M.  C.  Reynolds 
Treasurer ,  Miss  Gertrude  L.  Davis 
Superintend' t  for  Alaska,  Mrs.  James  McWhinnie 


HIS  Society  was  organized  Nov.  14, 
1877.  Its  object  was  “The  evan¬ 
gelizing  of  the  women  among  the 
freed  people,  the  Indians,  the  hea¬ 
then  immigrants,  and  the  new  set¬ 
tlements  of  the  West.”  On  May 
20,  1878,  the  Society  was  legally  in¬ 
corporated.  By  act  of  the  Massachusetts  legis¬ 
lature,  approved  April  9,  1888,  the  Society  was 
authorized  to  carry  on  its  work  in  any  part  of 
North  America. 


EDUCATIONAL  WORK 

Its  work  has  been  and  is,  for  the  most  part, 
educational;  the  territory  from  which  it  draws  its 
resources  is  New  England.  Through  its  Corres¬ 
ponding  Secretary,  State  Vice  Presidents,  and 
Directors,  it  has  sought  to  organize  circles  in  the 
churches  of  New  England. 

For  the  first  few  years,  the  work  was  among 
the  Indians  and  freedmen.  In  April,  1881,  a 
school  for  colored  girls  was  opened  in  the  base¬ 
ment  of  Friendship  Church,  Atlanta,  Georgia. 
Here  Miss  Packard  and  Miss  Giles  laid  the 
foundations  of  the  far-famed  Spelman  Seminary . 
The  same  year,  Mrs.  R.  C.  Mather  gave  to  the 
Society  the  school  property  at  Beaufort,  S.  C. 
In  1883  Hartshorn  Memorial  College,  a  school 
for  colored  girls,  was  founded  by  Deacon  J.  C. 
Hartshorn,  of  Providence,  R.  I.,  and  work  among 
the  Mormons  at  Salt  Lake  City  and  Ogden, 
Utah  was  commenced.  The  year  1884  notes  the 
beginning  of  the  Society’s  work  in  Mexico  and 
among  the  Chinese  at  Fresno,  California.  In 
1885  the  Home  Mission  Echo  was  published  for 
the  first  time,  and  for  twelve  years  Mrs.  Anna 
Sargent  Hunt  was  its  able  editor. 

The  years  between  1885  and  1904  have  been 
marked  by  advance  in  many  lines  of  work  al¬ 
ready  established  and  by  entrance  into  many  new 
fields.  In  1886  the  first  attempt  at  Baptist  work 
in  Alaska  was  made  by  the  appointment  of  Mrs. 
W.  E.  Roscoe  as  missionary  teacher  of  this 
Society  at  Kadiak.  The  teaching  of  1886  at 
Kadiak  resulted  in  the  building,  in  1893,  of  the 


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Kadiak  Baptist  Orphanage  at  Wood  Island,  and, 
in  1895,  in  the  building  of  the  first  Baptist  church 
in  Alaska,  which  now  has  a  membership  of  15, 
including  several  of  the  children  of  the  Orphan¬ 
age,  and  contributes  every  year  to  home  and 
foreign  missions.  The  Orphanage  seeks  its  sup¬ 
port  from  the  Sunday  Schools  of  New  England. 
A  new  feature  of  the  work  for  the  coming  year 
will  be  the  appointment  of  a  medical  missionary. 

The  work  among  the  Indians,  begun  in  Indian 
Territory,  has  extended  into  Oklahoma  and  New 
Mexico,  where  a  single  mission  station  has  been 
established  among  the  Navajos.  At  Velarde  and 
Alcalde,  New  Mexico,  schools  have  been  opened 
for  the  children  of  the  Spanish-speaking  Mexi¬ 
cans,  and  much  missionary  and  medical  work  is 
done  in  the  homes  of  the  people,  who  are  densely 
ignorant  and  held  in  subjection  by  the  priests  of 
the  Roman  Catholic  Church. 

The  rapid  growth  of  the  foreign  population  in 
New  England  has  led  to  the  appointment  of  Bible 
women,  who  find  large  fields  for  their  ministry  in 
the  manufacturing  cities,  where  the  French  Can¬ 
adians  live  in  large  numbers.  The  work  yields 
constant  proof  that  God’s  word  does  not  return 
unto  Him  void. 

In  recent  years,  Cuba  and  Porto  Rico  have 
looked  to  us  for  Christian  teachers  and  mis¬ 
sionaries  to  meet  the  phenomenal  opportunities 
presented  in  those  islands.  Ponce,  in  Porto  Rico, 
and  Santiago,  in  Cuba,  have  been  supplied,  but 
the  demand  far  exceeds  our  ability  to  meet  it. 

A  Swedish  missionary  is  doing  faithful  work 
among  her  own  people  in  Boston,  and  finds  a 
fruitful  field  among  the  immigrants  as  they  arrive. 

A  PLAN  OF  CO-OPERATION 

In  1 897  a  plan  of  co-operation  was  entered  into 
between  the  American  Baptist  Home  Mission 
Society  and  the  Woman’s  American  Baptist 
Home  Mission  Society.  The  Echo  was  changed 
to  Home  Mission  Echoes  and  enlarged  so  as  to 
present  the  work  of  the  two  Societies,  the  Amer¬ 
ican  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society  assuming 
one-half  the  expense.  Mrs.  Reynolds  is  editor; 
Rev.  H.  B.  Grose  and  Mrs.  James  McWhinnie  are 
assistant  editors,  and  Mrs.  Anna  Sargent  Hunt 
is  in  charge  of  the  Young  People’s  Department. 

The  plan  of  co-operation  brings  the  two  Soci¬ 
eties  into  closer  relations.  The  Woman’s  Society 
aims  to  help  the  General  Society  in  its  educa¬ 
tional  work.  Most  of  the  appointments  are  made 
upon  its  recommendation,  but  the  teachers  so 
appointed  are  supported  entirely  from  the  funds 
of  the  Woman’s  Society. 

In  the  twenty-six  years  of  the  Society’s  history 
the  amount  received  has  been  $756,913.81.  The 
number  of  teachers  and  missionaries  has  increased 
from  5  to  74. 


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